In February 2016, IBAC investigated allegations that a former officer of the then Electrotechnology, Printing, Information and Communications (EPIC) Industry Training Board (since renamed Future Energy Skills) had altered the final mark of a Licensed Electricians Assessment (LEA) examination, to enable a candidate to pass when a licensed assessor had previously evaluated the candidate as a fail.
To gain an electrician’s license in Victoria, Energy Safe Victoria (ESV), the independent electrical safety and technical regulator in Victoria, states that an apprentice electrician must successfully pass a LEA assessment. Future Energy Skills is an ESV approved assessor for the purpose of conducting LEA assessments.